Israelis couldn’t be outdone by their neighbourhood brethren. On April 6th, a large group of Israelis in South Tel Aviv marched into an area comprised primarily of Blacks, against the presence of Africans [and Filipinos, but primarily Africans - both native and migrant workers] in Israel, demanding the expulsion of the ‘thieves and rapists.’
Memorable moments from the 17 minute long video include a man at the beginning saying “200,000 illegals walking around here as though it’s the USA”; a woman screaming about how could she be living in the State of Israel when the situation there is worse than in Gaza; a young man chanting how the Filipino-African occupation of Israel must come to an end and, of course, what racist mob video wouldn’t be complete without the mob confronting and taunting the subject of their hate?
There is something deeply wrong with any society -and unfortunately there are many – which shows this kind of hatred. If this is the best the Middle East can get in democracy, liberty, and freedom – then I think the Arab Spring revolutionaries and protesters should rethink their efforts.
The video itself is disturbing: images aside, the language used repeatedly throughout sounds far too resonant of a group of murderers made infamous for their crimes 70 years ago. Infestations? Diseases? Incompatibility with “our” way of life? Destroying a country’s infrastructure?
To refer to Israel as anything but Apartheid is to diminish the truth; to fear lowkey ostracization over committing an injustice. Were this an isolated incident of racism against an ethnic minority, the crime would have been forgivable for the society. But time and time against, Israel has shown itself to be anything but tolerant. Perhaps unsurprising for a state built on an ultra-nationalist, racist ideology; built on the stolen land of others, the blood of others and sustained through systematic oppression and cleansing of others.
The racism runs deep within this society – being even just Jewish is not enough to be an Israeli.
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- Human Rights Watch to Israel: Stop Using White Phosphorous
Disgusting. I don't know how people can continue to support Israel.
Posted by Isis911 | April 17, 2011, 1:56 pmIsraelis brought more Africans into Israel in ratio to its size than any other country.
People in the US and Europe don't like illegal immigration as well and protest it.
Isis911- you do realize Arabs killed 3,000 people on 9/11. Of course, not in any racist way.
Posted by Wat? | April 20, 2011, 8:19 amI'm pretty sure the United States has Israel beat over history and per capita on that number, Wat. Of course much of it happened during the period of slavery, unfortunately.
Are you blaming every single Arab for 9/11, Wat? Does this mean we can blame every single Jew for the massive financial fraud scandal the US is suffering, because Bernie Maddoff was Jewish? Seriously, you are one hell of a racist, Wat.
Posted by Chaos4700 | April 21, 2011, 6:05 pmAnd any way, it's not exactly fair to not consider that number without pairing it up with the fact that white European Israelis purged HALF of the native Palestinian population in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign that surged in 1948 and has pretty much been ongoing at a simmering rate since then. Net balance is that Israel expels more non-whites than it "imports."
Posted by Chaos4700 | April 21, 2011, 6:07 pmMore propaganda. In fact it actively tries to keep blacks out. Its a racist state, just like UN resolutions and EU ratification have claimed. Less than a handful of states have been declared racist by the UN in all of history – only 2 I'm aware of. Israels and S. Africa.
Posted by Hares | August 28, 2011, 8:11 pmI don't believe Muslims who write on Jews. It's all politics and not truth telling !!!! If the situation of blacks in Israel is so "Apartheid" why do they prefer to escape and rescue themselves from bloody Arab Egypt to the hands of Israeli soldiers in the Negev? Take some thoughts and not just Anti Semitic smears.
Posted by @AbeBird | April 26, 2011, 12:02 pmA vile country which is built on all the principles the country was meant to be formed to avoid the Jews from.
Posted by dan | April 17, 2011, 3:23 pmA vile Dan.
Posted by @AbeBird | April 26, 2011, 12:03 pmI'm not surprised…. Israelis are extremely racist! They stole land that's not theirs because they felt like the Palestinian people were not 'good enough' to have it. They're revolting.
Posted by Eric | April 17, 2011, 10:02 pmWell, so did the Brits and French in North America ; )
Posted by SanaKF | April 17, 2011, 10:14 pmNo, this kind of thinking is what's revolting. Grouping a bunch of human beings together under the label "them", as if "they" are somehow intrinsically different from "us".
It makes me so sad we still haven't learned from our past mistakes. Simplistic, ignorant and downright stupid thought-patterns still spread like wildfire, fueled by hate and ancient animalistic instincts.
I suggest everyone should go watch this video for a lesson in empathy and understanding: http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_e…
Posted by @isakoqvist | April 18, 2011, 3:46 pmwho you callin human? israelis? no way. they are them. they bunch themselves together under a label. the collective is racist, vile, violent, dishonest.
Posted by 5ds | April 19, 2011, 12:40 pmWhat do you expect from a country founded on racism?
Posted by currymile | April 18, 2011, 10:45 amif i am not too far wrong, the thieves and rapists and murderers would be the aryan jews and their cousins the not-so-aryan jews.
Posted by 5ds | April 18, 2011, 1:23 pmI laughed at the "…down with the occupation…" chanter. Oy vey indeed.
Posted by thecynicalarab | April 20, 2011, 1:12 ampeople dont jeopardize their lives to get to israel. jews kill palestinians and take their land.
the immigration problems in palestine are the jews.
palestinians want to stay on their land, palestine. israel can carry with the wind blown goat shit.
jewish tongues flap. spit flies up their noses to soak the diseased brain cells.
Posted by 5ds | April 21, 2011, 12:25 pmPalestine is the Land of Israel, if you forgot read the Bible again. Both sides kill each other – the difference is that Arabs kill Jews because they are Jews and the Jews kill Arabs only if dealing with terror.
Posted by AbeBird | April 26, 2011, 11:53 amthe bible isn't international law, sorry. Theiving someone else's land also goes against tenants of the bible.
Posted by hares | August 28, 2011, 8:15 pmThe Palestinians certainly haven't been given that right by the Zionist European colonists who have been engaging in a systematic destruction of their nation. People don't "jeopardize their lives." Israel PAYS Jews to come. Just ask the Iranian Jews who snubbed Israel's multi-thousand-dollar bribe to abandon their homeland in Iran.
Posted by Chaos4700 | April 21, 2011, 6:10 pmIsraelis should send them to live in the US… or Palestine Jordan. Will you accept the blacks?
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Posted by Strawberry | June 1, 2011, 8:52 amI hope some 1 drives these racists out… they learned it in Germany and imported it with them to Palestine.
Posted by hares | August 28, 2011, 8:13 pmWrong the Jews kill arabs because they think they are the master race. Even the Talmud says raping a 3 yr old is okay if they are goya (non-jew).
Posted by hares | August 28, 2011, 8:14 pm